The Phenomenology of Testimony : From Inner Truth to Shared World /

Testimony is a central topic in contemporary philosophy, with a vast array of disciplines, from epistemology to testimonial literature, demonstrating considerable interest in it. Among these approaches, phenomenology and hermeneutics offer exemplary ways of capturing essential dimensions of testimon...

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Other Authors: Heiden, Gert-Jan van der (Editor), Marinescu, Paul (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Studies in Contemporary Phenomenology ; 27.

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Call Number: PZ7.S588

Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Notes on Editors
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction: on the Stakes of a Phenomenology of Testimony
  • Gert-Jan van der Heiden and Paul Marinescu
  • 1 The Temporality of Witnessing
  • Cristian Ciocan
  • 2 A Hermeneutic Phenomenology of Witnessing and Testimony: on Being-There-With and Being-Gathered-Around
  • Gert-Jan van der Heiden
  • 3 The Experience of Testimony: from the Individual to the Collective
  • Paul Marinescu
  • 4 Portrait Painting, Photography, and the Subliminal Testimony of the Environing Life-World
  • Jeffrey Andrew Barash
  • 5 Testimony as Articulation of Natality: an Arendtian Approach to Bearing Witness
  • Ileana Borţun
  • 6 Arendt's Phenomenology of Identity
  • Aoife McInerney
  • 7 Summoning Witnesses: Arendt's Practice of Quoting in Her Last and Unfinished Book Project, The Life of the Mind
  • Wout Cornelissen
  • 8 Testimony of an Exile from Language within Language-or How to Read Genet with(out) Sartre
  • Dorothée Legrand
  • 9 Testimonial Literature and the Meaning of the Past: the "Other" Narratives of the Gulag in Women's Memoirs
  • Lovisa Andén
  • 10 Witnesses of Fake History
  • Roland Breeur
  • 11 Topical Issues in Testimony: Literature, Digital Communication, and Ecology
  • Jean-Philippe Pierron
  • Index.